On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: > I use BOOT disk to boot up my system. Now I want to > duplicate the BOOT disk as a backup but I am having > problem. I tried to mount BOOT disk in fd0 but it won't > mount. I use: mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt > or > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > both cases won't work. > Can someone tell me how to duplecate my BOOT disk? > Thanks in advance. > Jimmy
Do (as some user that can write to /dev/fd0): <insert boot disk> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=tempfile <eject boot disk> <insert empty but formatted disk> dd if=tempfile of=/dev/fd0 For more options try 'man dd'. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
